Trevor Yorke has kindly provided a few specimens of the pocket sized Olney cinema progammes produced for the cinema’s customers on a monthly basis. Five such programmes issued during 1948 and 1949 are shown below which provide an indication of the range of films available to Olney residents. Click any programme for an enlarged image.
Trevor’s involvement in the subsequent development of the Picture House property is summarised below (under the pocket sized programmes).
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Trevor acquired the Picture House building in the mid-1980s in a very sorry state after a relatively long period of being empty following its use as a shoe finishing factory and later as a lampshade manufacturing workshop. Under Trevor’s family’s initial ownership it became a commercial photographic studio and darkrooms and employed up to about ten people.
ln 1996 it underwent a second substantial renovation when it became Trevor’s family home. At this point an extension was demolished that had been added to the front of the building when it became the shoe finishing factory . The building in its original form with its Dutch gable, set back a few metres from the pavement, was then revealed.
Trevor sold the building in 2002, after which it became home to a collection of businesses, although now (2020) it appears to have reverted back to a private house.